Thursday, March 14, 2013

Pope Francis on the Anglican Ordinariate

[...] Bp Venables added that in a conversation with Cardinal Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, the latter made it clear that he values the place of Anglicans in the Church universal.

He called me to have breakfast with him one morning and told me very clearly that the Ordinariate [created by the Catholic Church to accommodate alienated Anglicans] was quite unnecessary and that the church needs us as Anglicans ...

Yes. He mentioned a few things too that I think are incorrect - like that Ignatius was primarily interested in counter-reformation evangelical stuff - I think he just mainly interested in helping individuals with their spiritual lives. He says the Spiritual Exercises are the Jesuit's supplement to the gospels but that's not exactly right. And the idea that Francis is typically "Jesuity" seems off - this mentions just how weird it is for a Jesuit to become a bishop, much less a pope :) ... http://thejesuitpost.org/site/2013/03/whats-so-weird-about-a-jesuit-pope/